View From Top Photo

Photographer’s Note

Kee Monastery, Spiti, HImalayas, situated at 3500 meteres in the rain shadow area.

Some of you will remember this place from my previous post. Its the same monastery but the photo is taken after two hours hike. Secondly this photo was taken in the summers whereas the previous photo was taken in the winters.

I hope you will enjoy the serenity of this place as much as I enjoyed staying over there ... Have a good day everyone ... Peace

For more details on the monastery; please check my previous post.

PixelTerror, aloyho, cam, amol, nilolabrador, archanabhimasen, marieaude, fayeulle has marked this note useful

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KevRyan (22307) 2005-04-30 4:28

Beautiful subtle colours layering down the picture towards the monastery - this is sooting and peaceful enough in itself - what a fantastic viewpoint. Thank you for sharing this it is a really great picture to stimulate the imagination.

best wishes

Kev

aloyho (6109) 2005-04-30 5:05

Hi Sarju,
This is a very interesting shot. I love the pastel colour effect. It give that very peaceful atmosphere fitting for a monastery.
The textures and composition is impressive. Congratulations! Regards and a nice weekend.

cam (8880) 2005-04-30 12:44

Hello Sarju.It is with pleasure that I look at this other view of the Kee monastery.We can have a better idea of its dimension and topography.This monastery looks very isolated in a magnificient place,ideal for meditation.Surely hope to visit this pace one of these days.
Thanks for sharing
Charles

Leonie (8627) 2005-04-30 21:16

Hi Sarju!
Very impressive view from the top...I am dreaming of going to the Hymalayas...some day... So beautiful! Thanks for sharing!

Léonie

goldfish (71) 2005-05-01 2:19

very beautiful. the subtle clours make it impressive. thanks
justin

PixelTerror (86038) 2005-05-01 4:23

Hi Sarju,
Very nice Pov and framing you selected here, your result is nice and presents us very well this spectaclar landscape !
Have a nice day,
Jean-Yves

ramesh_lalwani (3209) 2005-05-01 7:47

Hi sarju
Nice colors.Turbulent river looks fantastic and dangerous.Colorful rocks in foreground add to beauty.Which river is it?
Ramesh

dsidwell (9745) 2005-05-01 8:40

I really like how this monastery has been captured in its larger context, and from above, we get to see so many different things about it. Nice work, Sarju.

Carma (2440) 2005-05-02 3:13

Very often you have great POV in your photos. This is great one. I love the little fields in the background and ice colours.
Nice done!

hdl (6735) 2005-05-02 7:50

Strange environment but such a nice colour palet. Interesting place to build a monastery; it kind of reminds me of the greek monasteries on the rocks of Meteora. I like the composition here. Looks like you are not afraid of hights!

thebig_d81 (777) 2005-05-02 12:32

Looks like quite a climb to take that picture. Such an amazing place with such unusual landscape. The town almost looks lika an ant hill. Very nice, well done.

nilolabrador (1469) 2005-05-03 4:10

A world in a picture! Great composition from the foregound rocks to the background cultivated gardens. Impressive POV
and DOF but the greatest feature is the place you are showing us. Thanks!

Mafo (1339) 2005-05-05 6:08

Nice interesting photo, Sarju!
Good composition, pastel colours, interesting!
Regards

cessy (13647) 2005-05-06 3:42

wow.. very nice bird view Sarju
very nice capture of the monastery in a great landscape
excellent composition

amol (952) 2005-05-06 10:52

hi Sarju
nice shot from a great POV...but I found it a bit dull...I have posted to workshop...hope u like it...

[workshop] [compare]

Emile (19843) 2005-05-06 11:17

Very beautiful photo, taken from the top.
Delicate colors. Nice composition.
Well done Sarju.

archanabhimasen (270) 2005-05-07 13:31

Hi Sarju,
Avery nice shot of the Monestery. It definitely look serene and the platues and the plains around it makes it look all the more peaceful.

Regards,

thebecky (686) 2005-05-08 23:59

Beautiful shot. I somehow likwe this better then the other posting of the monastry. The colours and the landscape are very typical of the Spiti region. I like very much the composition here, in particular the way the eye is led from the green patch in the fron in a sort of spiral
to the monstry at the top. I also like very much the perspective we get in this shot by the inclusion of the river and beyond. Very nice indeed.

everlasting (10896) 2005-05-21 3:14

This is a very nice photo, the subtle colours, the compostion, the scale, the fantastic POV. Must have been an exhilarating walk.

marieaude (1196) 2005-06-21 10:27

Well, another photo of this marvellous place, it’s great, I will love to go there and lose me there a few months. I like the way you make the photo from up and looking down, and showing the fields far away. Do they have to cross the rivers to work in the fields ??? I see you went there in winter but in summer too, you are lucky. With the travels you make, and where you are from, I don’t think that the Saddhus may scare you, maybe you were very young !!! it’s true that some times they look very strange and out of this world, but usually they are good people, I have many friends Saddhus and my brother is Saddhu too…..Thanks for sharing. Bye bye

fayeulle (26541) 2005-07-23 15:53

Hello Sarju
Incredible landscape. It is the fisrt time that I visit your portfolio. Very good. I will come back asap.
Congratulations
JP

lestans (15436) 2005-07-31 6:41

Beautiful landscape! It is a geography lesson, I can study this place. i think that you managed a lot in the left top , but it is good. How nice places you visited!!

BlaiseCendrars (0) 2006-01-03 8:24

Hello Sarju! I hope you are having a great start to 2006 and I wait for your first posting....! In the meantime I have found this one which I like very much. It was wise to rotate the camera here to get in all the landscape and the road and the patchy fields in the far distance, which is a great contribution. It would have been a fine photo even without the monastery, but it's there of course and very pretty it is. Good to get in the edge in the foreground - it gives a much better idea of your height and distance away from the monastery. Thanks mate,
Chris